Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
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2017-11-01
Alaazi, Dominic, Vallianatos, Helen, Yohani, Sophie, Okeke-Ohejirika, Philomena, Ayalew, Tesfaye, Salami, Bukola, Nsaliwa, Christina
Parenting practices are known predictors of child health and social outcomes. Yet very little is known about the parenting practices of African immigrants in Canada and their impact on child health and wellbeing, including mental health. This dearth of knowledge exists despite widespread...
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2008
Brindley, P. G., Drummond, J., Suen, G. I.
This manuscript is part-three of a threepart series on Medical Simulation, Part-one addressed the \"why\" of Simulation, namely, why Medical Simulation offers novel opportunities to improve education, continuing-competency, and patient safety. Part-two focused on the \"how\" of simulation,...
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2007
Brindley, P. G., Suen, G. I., Drummond, J.
This manuscript is part-two of a threepart series on Medical Simulation. Part-one addressed the “why” of Simulation, namely, why Medical Simulation offers novel opportunities to improve education, continuing-competency, and patient safety. Part-two focuses on the “how” of simulation, namely, how...
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2005
It is important to seek an understanding of teenagers’ perceptions regarding teenage pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of teenagers in Bushbuckridge district in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, towards teenage pregnancy. An explorative qualitative...
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Perception of the health of children living and working on the streets of Sunnyside - Part 1: Literature review and methodogly
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The phenomenon of street children is generating increasing concern in South Africa. The number of street children has grown because of the current economic hardship in South Africa, increasing levels of violence and widespread family and community disruption. In terms of health, it is clear that...
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2005
Galera, S.A., Roldan, M.C., O'Brien, B.
The number of women involved with drugs is increasing, and the same is true for violence against them. Many of these women are mothers. This study aimed to investigate how mothers of children between one month and six years old who are living in a context of drugs and violence and are receiving...
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2014
In this paper we use Alvesson and Sandberg’s strategy of problematisation to analyse the assumptions embedded in the development and use of the concept of ‘care-giver burden’.We do this in order to develop an explanation as to why decades of research into the experience of providing home-based...
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Public views of acceptability of perinatal mental health screening and treatment preference: A population based survey.
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Kingston, D., Austin, M., Lasiuk, G., Tough, S., Hegadoren, K., McDonald, S.
Background At a prevalence rate of 13-25%, mental health problems are among the most common morbidities of the prenatal and postnatal periods. They have been associated with increased risk of preterm birth and low birthweight, child developmental delay, and poor child mental health. However, very...